AI customer-engagement automation platform for enterprises which integrates marketing, support and sales workflows in order to optimize CaC-LTV. Has served 150+ enterprise clients, grew revenue 450% YoY over the last two years, and claims to have generated ₹500CR in additional revenue for customers through retention automation. ₹8CR seed round. Other investors in the round include LetsVenture, VCMint, Invention Engine, and angels Arjun Vaidya (V3 Ventures), Anand Shahani (WedMeGood), Vivek Mathur (ex-Elevation), Ajeet Khurana (Reflexical), Nitin Verma (InstAstro). Founded in Oct 2021, Bangalore based. Founders: Nishant (VIT '14; ISB '18) started out as an engineer at Cisco and was a product manager at Razorpay, Lenskart, HolidayIQ; Avinash (also VIT '14; XLRI '16) is from Darwinbox (enterprise accounts), ADPL, Coforge; Priam (VIT '21) was the founder of dev firm Rapca Infotech.

Defence deep-tech company building signal processing systems for next-generation electronic warfare and communication payloads across platforms, including drones, ground systems, naval vessels and satellites. The company leverages advanced in-lab modelling and simulation to reduce reliance on flight testing, enabling faster iterations. $20M Series A funding round led by General Catalyst along with 360 One Asset Management and existing investor Pravega Ventures (who led the Pre-Series A in Jan 2025). Founded in Nov 2017, Hyderabad based. Founders: CEO Satya (BITS Pilani '07) was at National Instruments in Hyderabad for a decade (most recently as Strategic Sales Manager); CTO Avinash (Padmasri Dr B V Raju Institute of Technology '12) was a Director at Encore Techno Systems.

Voice AI agents that run human-like lead qualification phone calls towards high ticket sales (i.e. $50K-$5M transactions). Supports more than 100K concurrent calls, with 570K minutes of conversations every momth across 33 clients in India, the UAE, Malaysia and the US. $450K pre-seed round led by Antler Singapore, bringing total funding to $1M. Founded in Jul 2024, Dubai and Bengaluru based. The three founders are IIT Delhi '13 and built Big.Jobs (hiring suite) together from 2019. CEO Himanshu (also IIM Calcutta '16) was CEO of Big.Jobs and also founded Gingr (mobile messenger for businesses) back in 2012; Shubham was Co-Founder & CTO of Big.Jobs; Sunil was Co-Founder & Head of Product at Big.Jobs prior to which he was a Senior Product Manager at UnitedHealth.

AI-based construction planning engine focused on improving planning and execution workflows in the US. Referred to by the company as "a construction-native AI system", it will understand building codes, materials, sequencing, procurement constraints, along with construction means and methods. $10M seed led by Bessemer Venture Partners (Pankaj Mitra and Aparna Chaganty). Founded in Oct 2024, Berkeley and Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Kanav (IIT Kharagpur '10) was Co-Founder & CPO at Innovacer (over a decade); COO Tanmaya (DCE '05; Stanford '08) was at DPR Construction (general contractor) for 13 years.

Consumer AI startup building AI companion Mello, for audiences in India's Tier II, III and IV cities to explore alternate lives, careers and their aspirations with local cultural settings which reflect linguistic and social nuances of their region. $2.5M seed round which closed around Sep 2025, now officially announced. Other investors in the round: DeVC. Founded in Jan 2025, Bangalore based. Founders Akshay and Ajit are both BITS Pilani. Akshay was an engineer at CRED (four years); Ajit worked on product at BuyStars, Leap and Flipkart (six years across these orgs).

Chip-design automation startup using AI reasoning to understand circuit structure and cut custom-chip timelines. Custom built chips can deliver 100x performance improvements vs. general purpose hardware. $1.7M (~₹15.4CR) pre-seed round. Other investors in the round: Concept Ventures, semiconductor angel Stan Boland. Founded in October 2025, London based. Founders: CEO Bragadeesh (IIT Madras '19) worked at Fractile (which is also working to chips and software to make LLMs inference faster), as well as CoMind and Imagination Technologies in London; co-founder Lannan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute '21; ETH Zurich '24) built TimeMatcher (WeChat mini program for group scheduling).

Data infrastructure startup providing a serverless datastore for real-time streaming data (i.e. live data like chats, game state syncing, AI agent messaging), specifically designed to power collaborative, agent-based, multiplayer applications. $3.85M seed led by Accel, along with with Uncorrelated Ventures. Part of the YC Fall 2025 cohort. Founded in Jun 2023, SF based. The three founders are ex-Etsy. CEO Shikhar (Symby 'LLB '06; Constructor University '09) is from Etsy (Senior Staff Software Engineer), Facebook, Confluent and Bloomberg; CTO Stephen (Univ. of Chicago '13; NYU '18) was at Etsy for six years (Staff Machine Learning Engineer); co-founder Dwarak (SASTRA '15; Univ. of Ottawa '20) was there for 3.5 years (Senior Applied Scientist

Personal finance platform focused on young Indian users, with an AI assistant called Jo. The startup uses India's account aggregator framework to provide users with a consolidated view of their savings, spending, investments and liabilities, along with data backed financial guidance. Launched recently with 5K+ users and ~₹25CR of connected savings. ₹1.5CR pre-seed round. Founded in Jun 2025, Jaipur based. Founders, CEO Prithviraj (O.P. Jindal Global University, King's College London) and CMO Pankaj (Stoa '22) built news outlet The Indian Wire together and are the hosts of the 'Backstage with Millionaires' podcast.

Agentic AI marketing startup helping SMBs get discovered via AI-led search workflows, capturing customers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity. As chatbots chip away from search traffic, businesses need help in surfacing. Gushwork uses AI agents to 1) automatically generate and update search-optimized content from both AI chatbots and traditional search engines, 2) build 10-20 backlinks per customer through 200-300 partner websites, 3) track inbound leads. The company has 300 paying customers, with subscriptions from $800 a month (i.e. $9-10K ACVs), with annualised revenue at $1.5M, and $3.0-3.5M annualised targetted in the next three months. 20% of Gushwork's customers get their site traffic from chat-led search. $9M seed at $33M post-money, led by SIG and Lightspeed, along with B Capital, Beenext, Seaborne Capital, Sparrow Capital, 2.2 Capital. Lightspeed led the $2.1M pre-seed at $7.5M post-money, in July 2023. Founded in Jun 2023, Delaware HQ, Bangalore based. Founders: Nayrhit (IIT Kharagpur '16; Chicago Booth MBA '23) was Product Lead at Prodigal and an Associate at Chiratae; Adithya (also IIT Kharagpur) was a Product Manager at Prodigal.

Fabless semiconductor startup building ultra-efficient AI compute hardware. The company is developing an analog, in-memory AI System-on-Chip integrated with optical interconnects to significantly reduce energy consumption compared to conventional digital accelerators. Headquartered in Singapore with R&D in Bengaluru, founded in Jun 2024. $1.8M Pre-Series A funding led by Bluehill.vc & a99. Founder & CEO Saravana (Anna University Chennai '08; Ulm University '16) was previously the CTO at EMTensor Inc. (electromagnetic brain imaging) and is ex-Qualcomm.